CHOPS A MILLAIS PICTURE.; Militant, Caught in National Gallery, Damages Portrait of Carlyle.

LONDON, July 17. -- A militant suffragette today slashed with a butcher's cleaver the portrait of Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish historian, painted by Sir John Millais and hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. The woman was arrested after a severe struggle with the attendants, and at the police station gave her name as Anne Hunt. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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